{"id":5140,"date":"2013-01-17T18:32:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/01\/black-stars-hold-first-training-session-in-port-elizabeth\/"},"modified":"2013-01-17T18:32:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T18:32:00","slug":"black-stars-hold-first-training-session-in-port-elizabeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/01\/17\/black-stars-hold-first-training-session-in-port-elizabeth\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Stars hold first training session in Port Elizabeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"bodytext\">                    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Ghana held their first training session at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth on Thursday to kick off their pre-match preparations at the Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p>Kwesi Appiah had a fully fit squad to train with the exception of striker Richmond Boakye-Yiadom who continued his recovery as he did some running and stretches.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a good exercise and I liked the intensity and commitment of the team. We came in today and we had to continue with our preparations,&#8221; Appiah said after training.<\/p>\n<p>The training, Ghana&#8217;s first since arriving in the Port Elizabeth earlier in the afternoon on Thursday lasted for two hours.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars will start their campaign on 20 January when they take on DR Congo in Group B.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&#13;\n\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"bodytext\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Ghana held their first training session at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth on Thursday to kick off their pre-match preparations at the Africa Cup of Nations.Kwesi Appiah had a fully fit squad to train with the exception of striker Richmond Boakye-Yiadom who continued his recovery as he did some running and stretches.&#8221;It was a good exercise and I liked the intensity and commitment of the team. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}